Nebahat Taskin Quotes

#1. Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

Wilferd Peterson

#2. A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.

Scott Spencer

#3. Phaedra of Alonso's death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage.

Melina Marchetta

#4. There is no one so cruel as a utopian who sees traditionalists standing in the way of the March of History.

Lee Penn

#5. All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#6. Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second, to chronicle that progress cheerfully, truthfully, and entertainingly.

Frank Crowninshield

#7. You cannot be chosen as a winner without contest. Winners have many families but nobody wants to associate with a loser. I will prepare myself and one day my chance will come.

Osunsakin Adewale

#8. The hole calls the thiefe.
[The hole calls the thief.]

George Herbert

#9. On his tombstone only three words were necessary: HERE LIES VOLTAIRE

Will Durant

#10. Israel has come out of the boils of the hell, a satanic state.

Norman Finkelstein

#11. You must never be fearful of what you are doing when it is right.

Marie Curie

#12. Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them.

Simone Elkeles

#13. Way to defuse a situation. It's tough to enjoy a good bloodbath in the middle of a PowerPoint presentation.

Nina Bangs

#14. I wrote all my songs on my main instruments, and the songs I would record in my bedroom were just acoustic guitar, mandolin, and sometimes bass. I really like the texture the mandolin added to my music, but my fingers were too big to play it ... I could only do little riffs and whatever.

Shamir

#15. Society was built on a foundation of fear, not authenticity. I get too numb when I join the world. I lose my openness, my access to the divine.

Jeff Brown